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The chilling new thriller by the author of SORRY
When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead. Theories are rife. Was it an argument? Was it drugs, revenge or madness?
At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone.
It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator, and the Traveller is born.
As he makes his way across a country gripped by fear, he’s searching for his next victim…
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Zoran Drvenkar
Zoran Drvenkar was born in Croatia in 1967 and moved to Germany when he was three years old. He has been working as a writer since 1989 and doesn’t like to be pinned down to one genre. He has written over twenty novels, ranging from children’s and young adult books to the darker crime novels Sorry and You. In 2010, Sorry won Germany’s Friedrich Glauser Prize for crime fiction. He lives in an old mill outside Berlin.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Was für ein Anfang! November 1995: Ein Mann, nachfolgend der Reisende genannt, steht auf der A4 zwischen Bad Hersfeld und Eisenach im Stau, stundenlang. Um ihn herrscht dichtes Schneetreiben, es gibt kein Vor und kein Zurück. Irgendwann verlässt er seinen Wagen, geht gegen die Fahrtrichtung und tötet 26 Menschen, die jeweils allein in ihren Autos sitzen. Ein Mythos ist geboren.
Das Ganze ist so realistisch dargestellt, dass ich als Erstes googelte, ob sich etwas Derartiges tatsächlich ereignete (natürlich(?) nicht). Auch die weiteren Handlungsstränge sind derart glaubhaft beschrieben, dass man schon nach Kurzem völlig in dieser Geschichte gefangen ist, wozu sicherlich ebenso der ungewöhnliche Schreibstil Drvenkars beiträgt. Konsequent nutzt er die direkte Anrede - DU ist somit nicht nur ein Titel, sondern macht auch klar, was Lesende und Hörende erwartet.
Fünf Mädchen, die zusammen halten wie Pech und Schwefel, machen einen weiteren Teil des Buches aus. So verschieden sie auch sind (so furchtlos die Eine, so vernünftig, mutig, zart und schutzbedürftig die Anderen), sie stehen füreinander ein in jeder Lebenslage - und das stellen sie unter Beweis. Durch Zufall kreuzt ein toter Mann ihren Weg und ein Koffer voller Drogen gelangt in ihren Besitz. Doch an Zufall mag der Bruder des Toten und gleichzeitig Eigentümer der Drogen nicht glauben - und eine wahrhaft gnadenlose Jagd beginnt. Wie die Wege all dieser Menschen (incl. des Reisenden) und noch ein paar mehr, aufeinanderzuführen, ist mitreißend und teilweise auch dramatisch geschildert, immer aus der Perspektive einer anderen Person.
Dazu trägt in der Hörbuchversion unstreitig auch Matthias Brandt als Vorleser bei. Obwohl er seine Stimme von der Charakteristik her kaum ändert, gibt er die jeweilige Gemütslagen der einzelnen Figuren derart überzeugend wieder, dass man von seiner Darbietung völlig gefesselt ist.
Ein toller Thriller, wenn nicht sogar eine Tragödie, die beinahe Shakespearsche Ausmaße aufweist. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You by Zoran Drvenkar is an extremely dark suspense thriller told through multiple storylines, each at times, darker than the next, comprising a delightfully interwoven and complex psychological story. Through an unreliable narration, the reader is introduced to a group of 5 young ladies, a coldly methodical criminal element, and what appears to be a random serial killer and sit back to be taken for a very dark, intense, psychological ride with many plot twists, each providing for an edge of your seat reading experience. I have not read any of Drvenkar’s previous works, but after reading You, I plan to read more, he is a mastermind at capturing one’s attention and not letting go. I would recommend You to readers who enjoy dark psychological suspense.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Der Schreibstil des Autors ist nicht mein Ding, insofern kann ich keine bessere Wertung abgeben. Die Story an sich ist gut, aber alles in allem nicht außergewöhnlich.